"We make the biggest best bombs. Yuge. Terrific. The Best."

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There s no way he's going to get re-elected. If he does, then this country deserves to burn

Yeah but we used nukes

Twice...

The alternative was a situation where Russia would've stopped at nothing to have half of Japan. Dropping the nuclear bomb prevented at least 5 more years of war, and told everyone to back off from WW2 and let it end. As terrible as the means were, they prevented worse outcomes.

Also in my non-expert opinion the combined effect of all the normal bombs was ultimately more detrimental to Japan.